@Intuitive: That match was either super laggy or your execution is not very good because you both kept dropping easy combos all the time.
But besides practicing execution:
There’s no point in doing a raw Sweep with Ryu and not canceling it into CADC. You did this many times. It doesn’t do anything and it’s not safe. So if you’re going to use Sweep at least special cancel into something.
You also kept doing stuff like c.mk xx Hadoken. What does that even do?
If you’re going to fish for something at mid-range you might as well buffer tatsu so you can switch cancel and get like 400+ damage on hit or even just BC launch which would be much better than what you are doing. cr.mk xx Hadoken is a silly habit from SF4 that you need to drop imo. Unless you are too close and just want to push them back then it’s ok.
2:00 - you land a cr.mk xx tatsu xx switch cancel but then with Ken you go for a throw instead of guaranteed 300 damage. You probably thought you were a little too late on the switch there, but you weren’t.
Your punishes are really weak. And I mean REALLY REALLY WEAK.
2:22 - you make his DP whiff and for punish you try to hit confirm with c.mp link or chain into EX DP. Why? You could just do fierce into HP DP xx Switch for 400+ easy instead of scaling the damage down with useless links/chains. Or simply do fierce xx EX joudan BnB (maybe that’s what you were trying too but you still tried to hit confirm).
End of second round, you drop you ABC launcher that could have saved you. So find a better and more reliable chain. st.hp is often out of range so use st.hk instead. Or if you’re not sure if fierce/roundhouse is going to reach, don’t even try it and go for manual launcher.
3:34 - Again, you make a DP whiff and try to hit confirm. We call it a punish because it’s guaranteed damage. You hit confirm when you’re not sure if opponent is going to block or not. But when they whiff something and are in recovery frames they can’t block. So no need to hit confirm. You max damage punish starting with your most powerful special cancellable normal, or simply with a special move xx switch.
3:24 - By far my biggest face palm. You punished a raw tag with a throw… That’s basically giving up 500 free damage for no reason at all.
So punishing is something you really need to work on. Because it is a huge weakness and you will continue losing a lot until you understand the importance of max punishing everything. It’s a shame because you seem to be good a baiting and making reversals whiff, but you just never capitalize on it.
On the good side, you did some good raw launcher frame traps from time to time. I think you were just desperate half of the time. But still, keep using raw launcher like that it’s very good and remember that you can always switch cancel on block and cancel the run early. Although with Ryu you can usually just frame trap with cr.mp and get the same result so Launcher is mostly when you are in negative frames and cr.mp would get counter hit (ex: after Sweep xx CADC, cr.mp would lose to crouch jab mashing but raw Launcher would win).
